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The trial judge in the Microsoft antitrust case acknowledged Friday that one important provision in the settlement she approved isn't working as well as expected, but she defended the agreement as otherwise effective.

Outwardly showing little change in recent years, the venerable desktop PC will begin getting a makeover in the second half of 2004, with the movement creating "tumultuous transformations" in the PC industry, according to a new study.

Information Worker Bridge to be accessible from Visual Studio

At Lotusphere next week, IBM plans to showcase a new "mega server" bundle featuring its J2EE-based application server, portal server, and content management and collaboration capabilities but not Domino itself.

Says late booking of contracts to inflate quarterly sales figures was widespread

A former senior vice president for Computer Associates International Inc. pleaded guilty to obstructing justice Thursday, saying the company had a "widespread practice" of allowing the late booking of contracts to inflate quarterly sales figures.

Qwest Communications International has not fully rid itself of the financial hardships it encountered in 2002, but channel partners have played a huge part in helping the firm erase more than $9 billion of debt in 2003, Qwest executives said today.

Last year's tough economic conditions took a toll on SAP. The German software maker's 2003 revenue fell 5% to $8.93 billion from $9.42 billion the year before. For its fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2003, revenue was $2.82 billion, down 3% from $2.89 billion the same time a year ago.

ASP pure-play NetSuite, which offers suites of accounting and business management applications services, announced Thursday that it dramatically beefed-up capabilities for its business-intelligence dashboards. Dashboards, which present continually updated metrics on business performance, have become among the hottest front-end applications in the BI market.

CEO: Company saw record shipments, revenue and profit

Disk-drive maker Maxtor narrowly eclipsed Wall Street's expectations for its revenue and profit for the fourth quarter of 2003, turning in sales of $1.17 billion and a profit of $38 million, compared with revenue of $1.03 billion and a net of $3.5 million for the year-ago quarter.